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Making APIs Easy to build, maintain, and deploy (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by rhysbeingsocial@alien.top to c/sideproject@indiehackers.space

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Hey SP,

I wanted to share my new project, Rest. The goal of this product is to simplify Creating, Managing, and Deploying an API to just a few clicks.

I like to call it "B.Y.O.D." which stands for Bring Your Own Data. :P

So far, we have received 100+ beta signups from users who are excited to use it first in beta. While in beta, we are offering the service for free while we iron out any issues.

For any developers looking for a more straightforward way to build and deploy APIs, sign up for our beta!

Feel free to contact me on Twitter if you want to discuss anything, or have some suggestions! https://twitter.com/rhysbeingsocial

The website can be found here: https://rest.so

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[–] lo1337@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

How can I join the beta? I can only sign up for the wait-list.

[–] smuthurangan@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Will it support any language Python, Java and node etc?

[–] rhysbeingsocial@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, mate, programming language agnostic. Bring the data, and we'll handle Code, Deployments, Servers, and Security. The lot.

[–] tres271@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Added my email to the waitlist.

[–] rhysbeingsocial@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the support buddy!

[–] ZippyTyro@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

interesting project!

[–] zachem62@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So this simply lets you build an API that can pull data from a file? The API can't have any logic to transform the data?

[–] rhysbeingsocial@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Not necessarily from a file, from databases, from spreadsheets; the choice is yours.

There's also a dashboard where you can drag and drop components, make routes, add rate limiting etc.

[–] AnybodyCold4123@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Can you suggest some good sites to deploy backend nodejs for free without credit cards??? I get trouble every time

[–] sirduke75@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Be sure to look at zuplo.com.

[–] rhysbeingsocial@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

zuplo.com

Thanks for sharing. I think a little bit of the difference is that with Zuplo, you still have to code, which is totally fine.

Rest is trying to completely change that and make everything much more drag-and-drop. Much friendlier, and inviting to engineers of all levels.

[–] sirduke75@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Glad to hear your USP. 👍🏽

[–] americancontrol@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just on my display, but I would consider having the very top of your second section be visible. Initially I thought the hero was the whole site, and I would've missed the second section with the actual information about your product, only saw it because I accidentally scrolled.

[–] rhysbeingsocial@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Hey mate, excellent feedback. I'll make sure to push an update for that!